Sad Songs Make Me Happy - Nathan Moore
Nathan Moore conducts this workshop at the Strawberry Music Festival, 2011.
http://www.nathanmoore.org
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http://www.surprisememrdavis.com
(Source: youtube.com)
Wow. So… doesn’t this lineup look really good?
Our 2nd annual lineup announcement party.
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The Border Blasters on Uncle Walt’s Band
http://www.borderblasters.com/
So I somehow stumbled upon these guys today. I was prompted to check out their stuff because I read the transcripts of this Taproot Radio podcast and what they were saying about Uncle Walt’s Band…
You can read the entire transcript and listen to the podcast here: http://www.taprootradio.com/2011/11/28/tpr64-border-blasters-interview-and-music/
For now, here’s the excerpt that struck me:
“Todd Jagger: One of our personal big influences was a band around Austin in the ‘70s and ‘80s called Uncle Walt’s Band. Do you know those guys?
Calvin Powers: No, I don’t. Tell us about them.
Todd Jagger: Go find them. Two of them aren’t with us anymore. They both passed tragically. David Ball who’s kind of making the circuit in the country store now is the third member. Uncle Walt’s was an acoustic trio; two guitars and David Ball on the upright bass. Champ Hood playing guitar and Walter Hyatt playing the other guitar.
JR Harrell: I believe they were all up from your area. They were up from North Carolina, South Carolina area.
Todd Jagger: Yep, they were. They were from –
JR Harrell: – Greensboro.
Todd Jagger: Something like that.
JR Harrell: Greensboro, wasn’t it?
Todd Jagger: yeah, Greensboro, I believe it was.
Calvin Powers: Now I’m gonna be on a mission to look them up. Thanks for the pointer.
JR Harrell: They were incredible and such performers.
Todd Jagger: You are gonna love them. Getting back to the whole point of that was that they had a thing, of course this was all before pick ups on your acoustic guitar, anything like that so they worked with all mics. When the crowds got a little loud in the places, they would just turn their PA down a little bit. They really forced people to listen to them, which I thought was always very interesting and a neat way of doing it. You can do that in a bar if you’ve got the huevos to turn your PA down when the crowd gets hot, gets loud.
JR Harrell: Now everybody plugs in, of course. To play an acoustic music but they have to plug in, what’s wrong with that picture?”
The Border Blasters have a new album out, The Sun Session that I’ll get to listening to later tonight, but I think I’ve already listened to their 2008 album, Blast From the Past about 3 times today.
At once, you can hear that Uncle Walt’s influence and it’s absolutely gorgeous.
It’s available to stream and free to download so treat your ears right and give it a listen…
Got To Be With You Tonight - Border Blasters
Treat your ears right. Listen to this track.
http://music.borderblasters.com/track/got-to-be-with-you-tonight
released 06 January 2008
Produced by T.J. “Tiny” McFarland
Co-Produced by Todd Jagger, Jimmy Ray Harrell, Joe Gracey
Recorded at Lone Star Studios, Austin, Texas
Studio Engineer: Joe Gracey, Austin, Texas
Remastering & Mixing Engineer: David Sinko, Sound Emporium, Nashville, Tennessee
Mastering by Eric Conn, Independent Mastering, Nashville, Tennessee
DeYarmond Edison - Where We Belong
Lyrics:
I’ll dance but I won’t dance long
Four shades and the color’s wrong
A call to arms, an epic right
The war’s begun, I choose your side
Love’s tame, you can’t set it free
Come back and it’s meant to be
The story’s old, the odds have changed
Return or not, it feels the same
Ride the rails and sing the songs
In the pine’s where we belong
Be still, let the journey bring
Calm winds and a song to sing
Unroll the map and plot the course
Ignore the needle pointing north
Waves crash on a vacant pier
Boats rock on a sea of fear
The tide is high, your hope still floats
Pull the anchor, cut the ropes
Ride the rails and sing the songs
In the pine’s where we belong
(Source: youtube.com)
Elizabeth Cotten -“Oh Babe It Ain’t No Lie” (by Shroomeryslearyfan)
From: Shroomeryslearyfan: “Irene Namkung and I represented Elizabeth Cotten for her last dozen years. She was our first client. This song was covered by the Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan among others. The photo is by Irene’s father, noted Northwest photographer, Johsel Namkung, in concert, Seattle, WA, ca 1974.”
Elizabeth Cotten - “Going Down the Road Feeling Bad” (by SmithsonianFolkways)
For more information about this album, click here: http://www.folkways.si.edu/albumdetails.aspx?itemid=2093
and for more information about Smithsonian Folkways , the non-profit record label of the national museum, click here: http://www.folkways.si.edu/index.aspx
This video features Elizabeth Cotten’s “Going Down the Road Feeling Bad” from the 1989 album “Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes” on Smithsonian Folkways.
Hang My Head and Cry ~ Marshall Hood (by shsscar)
Sound track recorded live in 2007 at Gruene Hall, in Gruene Texas. Original song “Hang My head and Cry” written by Marshall Hood.
Marshall Hood, lead vocal and lead guitar, Warren Hood, fiddle, Eric Hokkanen, rhythm guitar.
““Beggar in the Morning,” the opening track to the self-titled album, is lead by Barr’s cutting vocals and smooth guitar picking. The tune starts out with an ambiance of noise and leads into a classic folk sound which is a perfect opener to an album that fuses folk, blues and rock…”
Listen: http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/av/2011/08/song-premiere-the-barr-brothers—-beggar-in-the-mo.html#.
Folk, R&B on the cello: Ben Sollee
http://cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/showbiz/2011/08/15/soundcheck.ben.sollee.cnn.html
Uncle Walt’s Band concert, in three parts. Recorded at Tillman Hall in Clemson SC in 1974.
